The Influence of Grimm's Fairy Tales
Have you ever wondered how fairy tales influenced modern day literature? Grimm’s fairy Tales have majorly influenced today's literature. You can see this in modern day stories and even older ones. Many stories have seemed to use the Grimm’s Cinderella story as an outline for their books or tales. They tend to use the same ideas in terms of plot, attitudes, and stereotypes of the family and the prince..
Nowadays you can find a wide selection of books with a similar plot to that of Cinderella . The oldest story that is like that of Cinderella is dated back to the Chinese ninth century. So this story has been around for a long time as it seems. Most, if not all, of these stories include something that is lost, a big gathering, a stepmother, a dead mother, an absent father, two stepsisters, and a little bit of magic. They usually use the same setting. There is a young girl ( or even a boy) who is poor that, in the end, becomes royalty. One fairy tale that is similar to Cinderella in a way, is Rumpelstiltskin. In this story, there is a poor girl who, helped by magic, is brought into a royal family. Another story, is Rapunzel. She lives a poor life locked away, then…show more content… They all intend for a happy ending, and punishing evil. In Cinderella, she married a prince and got a happily ever after ending. If you look at the fairy tale Rumplestiltskin, evil was punished, and the daughter of the poor man had gotten married to the king and was able to keep her daughter. When looking at Rapunzel, there is a girl searching for freedom and she finally finds it when she meets a prince. She then becomes royalty. Sound familiar? The last fairy tale that we see this in is Aladdin. Except the gender roles are different. The “Cinderella” like character is Aladdin, who is a boy. We see him him go from poor and from rags, to riches. And eventually he marries into royalty. Again, sound
